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06-12-2015

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MSYS2 on Windows 7 VM

Hello All,

Hopefully I'm posting this in the correct place...

I just recently installed MSYS2 (*32-bit) on a Windows 7 VM I have running on my Linux Host. I have a basic question about User management on MSYS.

MSYS2 i686: Version 20150512

I'm guessing when MSYS gets installed it uses your Window's info, like username/etc to create your user in MSYS and to build your User's HOME dir (*i.e. /home/<win_username>)and stuff like that. Since My Window's User contains my first and last name, when MSYS installed it created my home dir as "/home/First Last", with the whitespace inbetween... This is starting to become a real nuisance. I could not find the file I would normally use to be able fix this, which is "/etc/passwd". So I'm kind of stumped on how I can resolve this.

I didn't want to just rename the HOME dir to something else because I figured that would break the env var HOME and also "~" (*i.e. tilde).

So basically what I want to do is change my Username and Group Name in MSYS, as well as change the Home directory after the username is changed.

Is this possible? Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

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xdg-user-dir

xdg-user-dir(1) 						   User Commands						   xdg-user-dir(1)

NAME

       xdg-user-dir - Get the path used for desktop user directory location.

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-user-dir DIR

DESCRIPTION

       xdg-user-dir is a utility that extracts the location of the specified desktop user directory from the file :

	   ${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs

OPERANDS

       Valid desktop directories (DIR) are:

	       DESKTOP
	       DOWNLOAD
	       TEMPLATES
	       PUBLICSHARE
	       DOCUMENTS
	       MUSIC
	       PICTURES
	       VIDEOS

       If an invalid directory is requested ${HOME} is returned.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

	   HOME.

       Other environment variable that are used are:

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME

	   Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/xdg-user-dir

	   XDG Directory expansion utility.

       ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs

	   Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Location of user's documents directory

       % xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS

       /home/user/Documents

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWxdg-user-dirs 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       More information can be found at:

       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

       xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008

SunOS 5.11							    03 Apr 2008 						   xdg-user-dir(1)